3 categories · RankedAkto
Akto is an API security platform that discovers APIs, groups them by business logic, and tests them for vulnerabilities · akto.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Cloudflare API Shield is first at 33%.
Salt Security is first at 16%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Salt Security is first at 44%.
Why models recommend it
“Best Open-Source Platform (Zero Software Cost) ... Akto offers a robust open-source version and a generous free developer tier”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best on a tight budget: Akto’s self-hosted, open-source edition”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd recommend Akto as your primary choice”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Choose 42Crunch or Akto if you want developer-centric API security integrated into SDLC”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Akto, over the 25 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Akto's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Modern AI Security Teams
- Price stated
- usage based Enterprise-grade pricing
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 25 of the 25 answers that named Akto and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Akto came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 486 | 97 | 2026-10-02 | DAST, DLP | |
| Conference or event | 75 | 6 | 2026-10-02 | DAST | |
| Glossary or explainer | 57 | 1 | 2026-10-02 | DAST, SAST | |
| Comparison | 47 | 17 | 2026-10-02 | AI security | |
| Case study | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 0 | 2024-02-27 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 2 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 2 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2026-06-30 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-02Agentic ai security toolkit blog
- 2026-10-02Akto for homegrown apps blog
- 2026-10-02Claude mythos security toolkit blog
- 2026-10-02State of agentic ai security 2025 blog
- 2026-10-02Mcp and ai agent security conference conference or event
- 2026-10-02Agentic release jul sept25 blog
Events in person
- August 1, 2026 to August 6, 2026Meet Akto Team at Black Hat USA 2026Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas, United States · exhibited
- March 23, 2026 to March 26, 2026Meet Akto Team at RSAC 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco · exhibited
As the event pages on akto.io state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page akto.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name DAST (36); 3 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.